Planning & Control Project Controller

Job Title: Planning & Control Project Controller

Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 in office days a week

Working Location: Indianapolis, IN

An exciting role has opened as a Planning and Control Project Controller. You will be part of a global team of Project Controllers supporting a new global Planning and Execution view for Rig Testing across the Rolls-Royce sectors. The aim of this is to enable a broader view across the company and optimize the inputs into each of the facilities based on their capability and capacity, through internal testing requirements and future opportunities for external revenue generation. You will be a Test and Experimental Engineering (T&EE) Ambassador, advocating internal testing capabilities and work input to internal/external customers. In this role, you will travel up to 10% domestically supporting Indianapolis and Rolls-Royce West Lafyette and Purdue with some international travel to the UK as needed.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

What you will be doing:

• Using PM principles, supporting Global Rig Facilities with scheduling requirements to provide a global view of all testing requirements by integrating individual plans into a Master Plan using P6 Primavera
• Ultimately provide a 5-year plan of testing activities for your facilities utilizing the SORB process
• Identifying opportunities for increased rig testing utilization through a work allocation process based on your facilities capability and capacity, including opportunities for external revenue generation
• Supporting collation of Key Performance Indicators
• Identification and effective resolution of risks, hazards and scheduling clashes within the Planning and Execution remit Building and maintaining good and effective working relationships with the global rig
• facilities
• Planning and Control experience within processes and scheduling management
• Demonstrate on-time delivery of project and program deliverables
• Build and manage effective working relationships with internal and external
• stakeholders
• Experience of managing multiple project deliverables at any one time, resulting in on-time delivery, risk management and prioritization where necessary
• Experience of the SORB or Finance processes would also be advantageous however is not essential
• Integrating individual facility plans from their individual scheduling model into P6 Primavera, ensuring that the level of detail is suitable or managing the plans schedule as well as risk factors for on-time testing delivery
• Building a 5-year plan view in line with the SORB to understand Load and Capacity within each facility, where possible
• Supporting each facility with opportunities for internal testing capacity or external revenue generation, through a defined work input and allocation process
• Maintaining an accurate L1 plan within P6 Primavera with the appropriate amount of detail, derived from each facility L0 plans using Project Management principles and defined processes
• Supporting the SORB process with longer term work allocation knowledge from the work allocation process and historical input requirements from the relevant projects and stakeholders
• Analyzing the facility plans to understand the available capacity and whether this can be utilized through internal and external advertisement based on the facilities capability
• Supporting collation of appropriate KPI data relevant to the function to understand the productivity and efficiency of each rig facility

Who we're looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Basic Requirements:

• Associate degree with 3+ years of testing or planning experience, OR
• Bachelor's degree with 1+ years of testing or planning experience, OR
• Master's degree, OR
• JD/PhD, OR
• 5+ years of testing or planning experience in lieu of a degree
• In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S Permanent Resident

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience using P6 Primavera is advantageous but training will be provided

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Closing date: September 19, 2025

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.